GERMANY'S AIM IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 7

GERMANY'S AIM IN RUSSIA

TO STIFLE THE REVOLUTION

JAPAN WILL TAKE DRASTIC ACTION'

GAS' ATTACK ON AMERICAN

FRONT

U-BQAT WAR ON ■ SHIPPING

BRITISfI LOSSES STILL LARGE

It is made clear in a, Russian official report to-duy that what the Germans are striving for in this new offensive is the stifling of the revolutionary causo. From all accounts the Bolsheviki would appear to have abandoned the idea of making peace with the enemy, in view of the fact that an armistice has been refused, and that , the enemy is evidently bent upon occupying Russian territory. All the declarations and reports in to-day's dispatches speak of resistance instead of capitulation. The only reference to the resumption of the Brest Litovsk meeting is a statement to' the effect that Russian delegates have been delayed en route by a blown-up bridge. In the meantime the probability' of Japanese .intervention is exciting the keenest interest. There is every prospect that tliat intervention will be of a drastic kind. Mr. Balfour, the British Foreign Minister, has replied to Count von Hertling's vague hints and evasions on /

the peace question/ and indicated in plain terms that there can never be any serious discussion on that question until Germany says that she has sinned, and is prepared to make atonement, and restore that which she has taken. The U-boat war on British shipping durthe past week has accounted for fourteen large vessels and four smaller ships. . '